For some patients, the changes are already translating into longer waiting times and declining service.
But they have been met with strong criticism from consumer groups who fear higher fares and declining service.
— Glenn Collins The Atlantic: A server riffs on the waitressing life, her response to a riff by GQ's Alan Richman on declining service standards.
There is nothing particularly untoward about this; plenty of senior Tories, from Ken Clarke down, declined service under Iain Duncan Smith because of his deep-dyed anti-Europeanism.
This explained why customers reported some strange, seemingly anti-capitalist behavior at Staples stores: employees refusing to sell computers to customers who decline service plans.
MP Matthew Taylor followed up in 2008 with Living Working Countryside which drew attention to "unaffordable homes, low wages and declining services".
The Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce, in a mostly resort community in northern Michigan, collected comments from more than 300 members last summer about the impact of rising airfares and declining service at the local Cherry Capital Airport.
"The October Revolution is a major source of inspiration," said Najm al-Din Yusuf, 24, a student activist who has participated in recent campus protests against declining services, rising fees and commodity prices, unemployment and an uncertain future.
For all the complaints travelers have been voicing about delayed flights, declining service, crowded planes and invasive security procedures, there has been comparatively little outcry about another trend: escalating taxes on flights, car rentals and hotel stays.
The controversial law allowed businesses to use religious freedom as an affirmative defence in lawsuits, and was seen as a sanction for people with religious objections to decline services for same-sex couples.
